RR Isolation Hood and Blindfold

Well here it is, the RR hood, and some people have told me its about time I did this one.



Quality

As you'd expect of Marine, it looks great. Its a tight, thick leather hood, with tight lacing on the back in what is often called the Gwen Style. The open upper face and covered mouth work really well with it.

It has three hair options as well. Up, which is the ponytail, Down, which has hair come out the bottom of the bakc of thood as if it was been pressed down, and none, which of course means you're rather bald, short haired or have it tucked into the hood. You can change which option you use via the Hood Texture plugin

The hood has 9 colours, and can have the laces or skin (the main part) coloured seperately. The hair has 10 colours, and can have the sides, or three seperate middle sections seperatly recoloured to allow for streaks in your hair if you like.

The Blindfold (comes with the hood) matches the hood perfectly, and can be recoloured as well, allowing you to make it the same as the hood, or contrast it to stand out more.

Function

The hood can be locked in four ways, loose, medium, tight and total. Each garbles your messages more, with total just silencing you altogether. It carries alarms should you log in withotu RLV or remove it without permission (I.E when locked), and comes with 8 plugins built in. Two of these plugins are the recolours for the hair and hood. Theres also of course the Realkey.

Theres Autolock, which locks the hood at a later time. It can be set to lock for a certain amount of time, or just indefinatly till the locker releases it. The timer (both autolack and normal) can also be set to RL time if you so wish.

You can adjust some gag options via plugins as well. You can have it monitor and shorten emotes, have it restrict slashes.. Uncertain of how or what it does. Block or restrict IMs (DON'T!) and also affect typing. Lastly there is give keys and "hood.." which just has IM blocking again and can block chat

The blindfold has 6 levels of blinding, each one making it harder to see through the HUD than the last, bar the small hole in the middle. It has RL time, Give keys, Autolock, realkey and the recolour plugins.

The and hood blindfold can be set to silent and/or male via the "tools.." menu, and the "More.." menu has a few more handy things such as allowing you to turn the alarm on and off and lets you choose to hide or show the timers.

When locked, a "Special" menu that has Alarm and Verbose stuff in it comes up, while tools disapears. The "more.." menu gets some timer settings and a button to take you into the full timer menu as well.

Score

As this is technically one restraint in two pieces, on set of scores will do.

Quality - Very high, and quite unique, I know of no other locking hood in this style, most these days are tattoo layer only and have no function at all - 9/10
Function - Carries a lot between the two pieces, does what a hood needs to, all ina ll has plenty built in with a couple of nice extras - 8/10
Price - 450 linden. For what it has, thats very reasonable. - 8/10
Average - 8.5

The many Plugins and locking systems of SL

Seeing as its Christmas, I don;t really have time to do a proper review, so just gonna write up what a lot of the plugins built intot teh gear do, in more depth than I do in the normal reviews.


Restrained Freedom

Aux Bound - This allows third party objects to control your restraints, primarily the phantom Mistress included with the secure cuffs. it lets it bind you as it sees fit, and I believe puts the restraints on expose for others to access. I am uncertain of timers.

Cager - Sets up a cage around the victim. Simple little thing, but be warned, you seem to be unable to de-cage yourself.

Cam Control - As you'd expect, it allows them to limit how far away yoru camera can go.

Cycle Bound - When turned on and bound, this will cycle through the positions built into the restraint on an adjustable timer. Fun for people like me who get bored of one pose if stuck in it too long.

Cycle Iso - This works like cycle bound, except it adjusts how youa re isolated (Gagged, blinded, deafened)

Future Lock - This is a handy little plugin. You choose the pose (random is there as well), how many hours later it should bind you, and then for how long it should keep you locked up. It has Timebound, which just unties you, and general timelock, that will clear all owners when done (Not visible for self bondage)

Invisi-cage - This limits you to an area specified in the menu, varying from 3 meters to 25. Should you walk out of this boundary, you'll be dragged back to the middle.

Mannequin Mode - This mode will freeze you when certain conditions are met. You can set it as Dependant or Secret. For Dependant, you will freeze if there is no one near by, for secret, you will freeze if people are too close. You can set the range from 5 meters all the way up to 90.

Catatonic - You will randomly freeze every so often.

Keep Away - Will forcibly push you away from any other person.

PA Plugin - Please see my multi-cuff review for info on this.

Bell Control - When turned on, you'll jingle a bit as you move.

The locking system for RF is fairly simple. One person takes the keys, they can then give the keys to someone else or leave them hanging again.. Or just hold onto them until rather a timelock is done or they feel like releasing you.

The Master Key is a prim key that is similar to a realkey. You can rez the key in the air next to the bound captive and anyone who touches it has access to your restraint. It also has a necklace key, which you wear and anyoen who touches it well.. You're asking for trouble.


KDC

I don't own much KDC gear, but what I do own seems to lack plugins of any sort, so onto the locking!

In the case of the Straitjacket, its simple. Nobody, Anybody, Group or Whitelist. Each one of these is self explaintory. When strapped up, theres 4 levels of strictness, each one been harder to use the mini-game to escape from.

Her more recent devices, such as the Ballgag I covered before are in theory good.. But this is not a review, so won't go into that.

Two types of locks.The first kind is the fingerprint scanner, included in the box with the gag for example, without an NC to explain it, so a general everyday user will attach it, touch it, and bind it to their own fingerprint, no one else will be able to use it. This allows a fingerprint lock to be applied ot the restraint (Touch it on your hud, then the restraint), and repeat the process to remove it. Only the person whos finger is bound to the lock can open it.

The other kind is a normal padlock. However it can only be used on one restraint at a time. The key however can be placed on a surface, and anyone who clicks it can access the locked restraint. Again good in theory..


Mesmerize Dungeon

MD have a few things worth explaining

Group Key - You can sync it with your current group, then hand out the key. This key can then be used if you are in the synced group.

Picklock - The picklock is the easiest way to escape the locks. You cannot picklock yourself when bound, and you can never picklock your collar either. You can assign one person to picklock your gear providing they have the lockpick tool. They just need to attach it (best to the hud) and click it. They'll get a mini-game of sorts. 6 options, eahc one has 6 numbers it cna scroll through. When all 6 are on the correct number, you turn it and it opens.

Theres a simple albeit slow process to this. Move one cylinder up one point, turn it, repeat and turn it again, and keep doing this till it says something moved. That means this one is correct, so move onto the next and repeat. This time it'll say two things moved when you hit the right number. The tumblers can all fall however, making you restraint, BUT the numbers do not reset, so it would sitll be the same ones as before.

Signature - Not really unique to MD, but thougth I'd mention it. It adds a title above the head of the restrained person, can be adjusted in colour and text, and be hidden or made visible.

The locking for this is very simple. The Primary owner (set via owners) has access all the timer. The Sec owners can overule anyone bar the primary, and everyone else just needs to hit the restraint when it is exposed and/or unlocked and choose to go in.


Thats all for this set, more plugins will be posted about in future.

MD Rubber Mittens

An MD product tonight, the third and last pair of mittens I own.

Quality

I'm a little biased here, as I am not fond of inflatable bondage gear, but still, these do look pretty good for what they are. They turn your hands into useless round orbs, with the nozzle ofr the pump sticking out the end and a snug cuff around the wrist to keep them on. They are also, as they should be, shiny.


They can be recoloured via a plugin, carrying 10 colours. The cuff, the cuff strap and the mitten itself can all be recoloiured seperatly. As its MD, its fairly high quality, showing off the stitches in the cuffs amounst other little details.

Function

The first option you'll notice (If you lock them, or are locking someone elses) Is the notouch option with an X next to it in the top left. Click it to turn trh X into a tick and it'll do as the name suggest and what mittens are supposed to do, stop you touching and using things with your hands. Following that is a timelock and a leash, both expected.

Under Plugins you'll find the meat of the mittens. Theres the owner system, one Primary, some secondary, who have access at all times. The picklock tool for when you need help to get out, due to been locked for too long, having the locker lose access, or because someoen was an ass and locked you and left. The color menu is in here as well, followed by give keys, always a handy plugin and the groupkey, allowing anyone in your active group to access the mittens.


Back in the main menu, you have the RLV menu which does the usual restrictions and gives folder access, Public, which is pretty much expose. When turned on, yuo can no longer access the restraint unless someone kindly turns it off and unlock.

Despite having a cuff at the wrist, it has no bondage poses built in.




Visit in world - http://slurl.com/secondlife/MD/128/180/1506

Scores

Quality - Nice enough, they look good for what they are - 7/10
Function - Sadly it just lacks here, especially compared to the cheaper yet more functioning mittens from SLiCK or the slightly more expensive ones from RF. - 6/10
Price - 350 linden. More than Slick, slightly less than RF, but supplies less than both as well. - 7/10
Average - 6.5

Restrained Freedom Multi-cuffs

Yes I know I keep doing RF gear, I have so much of it.. I'll add more shops to the mix later.

Quality

So we start with looks. Theres quite a bit to cover. 4 differant designs for each part, the cuffs, the gag and the blindfold. You have Humane (default), BDSM, Handcuff and rope for the cuffs, the Gag has panel (default), ball, ring and rope. The blindfold has a Panel (default), Scarf, pads and rope. Theres also a built in straitjacket.

All of the designs are well detailed, the straitjacket seems to be canvas, but I hold out hope for a latex one in future (I know what I like, sue me). It has nine arm positions, nine legs positions with an extra position been "Faux Taut", which gets you the chain without the actual hobble I believe. The gag, blindfold and earmuffs all have a faux option as well.

Function

Sit back, this will take awhile.

To start with, we have to decide who we let in. Nealry all access requires a multi-key (comes in the box, or can be bought for 99 linden). Anyone, Land Group, Whitelist, Self and Expose.

Anyone lets anyone with a key into your cuffs, land group lets anyoen with a key and in yoir group in. Whitelist and self let anyone on the whitelist in as well as yourself. Then theres Expose. When in this mode, anyone can get access to the cuffs, IF they do a little mini-game with you. You can;t move while the game is going on, each round has three options for both the victim and captor to choose, and they need to win a certain amount of times to rather force the assaulter out, or to be caught. The captor also has Give up, does as the name suggests, and the victim has surrender, again obvious.

Theres an escape minigame. six options, one is correct per round. hit it and you get one step closer to escape. Hit 3 wrong in a row, you get knocked back one. Both take away from an energy meter, which when empty stops you struggling while it slowly refills.

The gag has 7 settings, including the aforementioned faux. You have thinking, which makes your messages come out as "<name> thinks:...". You have mmph, a fun little one for short term play that makes eveyrthing you say come out as Mmphs and Mms., and silence which does as the name suggests (and is kinda boring, but required I suppose). It has 3 levels of standard gagspeak. Mumble, which is fairly clear, Garble which is somewhat and Incoherant that.. Does as the name suggests.

Three settings for the blindfold. Faux, half and full. Ears have Faux, partial and full. Theres an Accessories menu which has RLV folder access and the typical RLV menu, as well as a relay. Under plugins you can find things such as timelock, and options to lock out style change, verbose and escape. As well as teh PA plugin.. More on this later.

It also has a leash and a load of sub anims built in.

PA plugin

Yep, this funtion is getting a bit to itself.

The PA plugin in your cuffs works with the Paine Asylum at RF. Turn it on and go into the asylum. You can commit yourself by putting on the cuffs and sitting in a wheelchair by following the brightly coloured lines on the floor. When you sit down, you'll instantly be gagged, put in the SJ pose, hobbled and have some settings changed, such as the RLV relay been set to auto and access been set to Anyone.

You'll be TPed upstairs to the daytime room, a sort of common room with soem games, a TV, etc. You are then free to leave this room, but you can't open any other doors without a multi-key.. And to use the key, you need to be untied.

Then theres the Fairies. If you have the PA plugin turned on, they will sometimes pop out and do things to you. There seem to be six in all. three patients (Blue, Green and Pink) which adjust your bondage, sometimes tickle you, then leave you where they found you. Theres then three nurses (Yellow, Orange and Red). I've not met the orange myself, but have sene it on someone else. Red seems to send you to the bedrooms and bind you to a bed quite often, while yellow favours the shock therapy room. Orange.. Who knows?

These fairies can cause you a lot of issues. They don't timelock you, so you rather need to get lucky and have one of them free you, or have a handy staff member around to untie you. From what I;ve seen in there, the staff act as if teh fairies don't exist for RP purposes, so be careful.

From some questioniong, I was able to find out a bit on the fairies. They will grab a patient within 20 meters of themselves, providing theres no nurse also in this 20 meter radius. What this means is a nurse cna be 5 meters from the captive, and a fairy could pop out and nab the patient right there in front of them. I believe the staff need to have the key on to be detected however.

Scores

Quality - Pretty high, good options, fair bit of customization and more ropes. - 9/10
Funciton - I can;t give this less than 10/10. It does so much!
Price - 1000 linden.. Toughy. Expensive yes, but so much inside.. and that PA plugin alone.. 8/10
Average 9/10

Amelie Barbours Mesh Straitjacket

Another straitjacket today, what can I say, I love the things.

Quality

This thing is a tad.. Odd with quality. Its appearance changes heavily based on viewer settings. If you have lighting and shadows on, you want to edit the restraint (You need to right click on something else, hit edit, then click on the SJ, rigged mesh and all), go to texture and change shinyness to high for the best results.




If you don't have Lighting and shadows on? Set shinyness to low. Regardless of whether you do this or not though, the SJ looks great. Tight as only a mesh product can be, thick, tight straps in key locations, very latexy. Not as many straps as some SJs, but well.. This seems to be the kind of one you pull over your head, not slip in via an opening in the back, going by lack of zip on the back.

It has a colour hud to allow basic colours changes to the buckle, the main body and the straps. You can also go into edit as described earlier, tick the Edit Linked box, hit select face and adjust the straps or body manually this way if you want a specific shade (NOTE: This seems to crash my viewer at times. Uncertain if its just me however)

Function

Its let down a bit here. Theres the aforementioned HuD that lets you alter the restraints colours, and then theres the locking mechanism. Two types. You attach the SJ controller that comes with the restraint, and get an option. Anyone, or Single Key. If you choose Single Key, you can wrap yourself up, and free yourself.. Or be at the mercy of whoever else gets the key first. On Anyone however, it does as it suggests. Anyone can lock you or free you.. But once you're bound, you can't free yourself. Be careful!

It also has a Lift/Drop command. This is sort of like a leash. The person who lifts you carries you around on their shoulder, although there can be a few issues with this looking a bit odd.

Other info

If you take off the Straitjacket controller your arms no longer stay snuggly in front of you, but instead free, albeit still in the SJs sleeves. Could be used for some interesting RP such as breaking out if done right. 

Get it in world at - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Henterman/16/35/40 and online at https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/26486

Scores

Quality - Very high, even without max settings it looks great.. So Shiny - 9/10
Function - Not much. Why is eveyrone against timers in SJs? - 5/10
Price - 895 Linden.. Tough one. Its mesh, and an early mesh restraint at that, which tends to be more pricey.. - 7/10
Average - 7/10

Score breakdown, etc

A few people I've met who read my blog have asked me to post a few details on how the scoring for my reviews work, so here ya go.

Quality

Quality is decided by the looks, design, textures and the like. It also covers how many colours an item has and how much detail the person has put in (such as studs or stitching).

Quality is one of the primary requirements of anyr estraint, simply becuase for both RP and general play, you want something that looks good right?

Function

Function covers EVERYTHING the restraint has inside it. How many plugins it has, how it locks, any extras, and mos timportantly how many poses.

While not as important in RP (a good RPer can spin it without actually even locking the toy), its still handy to have high funcitonality for things such as gagspeak and poses, and of course differant looks such as say various gags like the MD head Harness has. In general play such as Mistress and pet/slave/doll/sub it is quite important, as it allows the domme more or less control depending how much is packed in.

Price

This isn;t just "Oh it costs a lot, so it scores low", this covers whether or not I feel the restraint is worth the money. So you may see me give something worth 1000 linden a 9, btu something worth 500 a 5. This one depends heavily on the other two scores.

Average

Average = Quality+Function+Price/3 rounded to the nearest .25. Thats the equation for you Mathematicians out there.


Some other things - You can get very high qualty restraints with low function, such as the KDC Straitjacket. Then you get stuff like opencollar, which is fairly low quality, but would get high points for function. (NOTE: At this time I have no intention of reviewing opencollar gear, its noted here purely for an example)

Aria

KDC Straitjacket and Stuffed Ballgag

A double review tonight of some gear from KDC, a store I have yet to do any reveiws for.

Straitjacket

Quality


If KDC does anything amazing, its looks. This straitjacket is probably my favorite looking in SL.. Especially with the latex texture pack installed. However that costs extra, more on this later. The textures are very high quality, the shape works perfectly and looks great. It did however require some heavy customization to fit me properly, once again something not built for a tall slender shape.

There are 15 latex textures, 5 leather and 4 base, all highly detailed and looking great.

Function

This lets it down a fair bit. No hide option so onces it on, you have it in full view at all times, not so good for been discreet. There are a few options. There is of course the recolour, then theres the access settings. They can be set to Anybody, Whitelist, Group or Nobody, seperatly for both locking and unlocking. The whitelist is accessed by right clicking the restraint, hitting edit and going to contents. Theres an NC in there that you double click and add names to.

The last menu is the RLV options. When turned on the restraint can deny rezzing, editing or tough, or be deactivated. You can also select lock in here to let RLV handle the locking system.

Extra info

This straitjacket is brilliant in looks, but those looks carry a price. I usually leave prices till the end of the review, however for this one I need to make an exception. The base SJ costs 550 linden. The leather pack costs 250 linden and the latex costs 350. That comes to a grand total of 1150 linden. Pricey.

Stuffed Ballgag

Quality

As expected, it looks great. Very well detailed, with a hud that lets you adjust the differant parts of the gag colour. There are 9 colour settings for the ball and strap, pus its stitiching, as well as an Orthopedic setting that makes it look like a gag they'd use in an institute. You can also adjust the metal of the gag (the little buckles and studs) to one of 7 colours.

When not in your mouth, the gag hangs around your neck, which is quite nice.

Function

This gag comes with an RLV activator which needs to be attached to make the gag actually well.. Gag you. When clicked, the gag itself will rise up into your mouth and if said RLV activator is attached, will garble you. If its not, you can self garble by using the /100 channel. It also comes with a fingerprint padlock..

This padlock, as far as I can tell, records a persons fingerprints, then allows them to lock or unlock the gag. It attaches to the hud. If you click it on the hud, then click the restraint (gag in this case), it locks it in place. You can then unlock it by repeating the process. Its a little clunky, It only allows on person to be registered on the lock, and can't be copied, meaning you need to buy extras if you want others to lock you in. You can purchase additional locks at the store, or buy keyed ones instead, which can have multiple people.

Scores

Straitjacket
Quality - If you bought the latex pack, its 10/10, if not.. 8/10
Function - Its not great, lets be honest. It does what it should, but just lacks soemthing - 6/10
Price - 550 (8/10), 800 (7/10), 900 (6/10) or 1150 (4/10)
Average - Too many variables. I dislike this whole texture pack system.

Stuffed Ballgag
Quality - I love how htis looks, 10/10
Function - It works somewhat well, but the lock system is a complete and utter mess - 5/10
Price - 400 linden seems fair.. Although its more like 450 after you buy the extra keys you need. 7/10
Average - 7.5/10

Closing thoughts
Despite its lack of function, I love the SJ, I really do. I really like the gags design as well, but that locking system is downright terrible. You can't use it for normal play effectively.

RF Mummy Brace

Here we go, a little review tonight of something new by Katie.

Quality


This thing is pretty nice, its a solid body brace, made of leather. No latex textures that I cna find, but thats okay. It looks pretty good regardless. Up close its detailed as expected of katie, with a nice long zipper going down the back and plenty of straps over the stiff restraint to ensure totla helplessness. 10 leatehr colours to choose from, straps and brace can be coloured seperatly.

Function

It can bind in 4 positions, on your lef tor right sid,e on yoru stomach or one your back, as well as unbound to hide it. It can be exposed to the public, have the keys taken away as normal and carries a fully functioning RLV menu. You can adjust how loud the straps are when applied, and how loud the click is when locked, and theres a resizer inside which you will need to use I think, it looked absolutely hug eon me when I first put it on, and may even be a bit too big still.

Has the RF masterkey and can have sec owners added.

Scores

Quality - Not the best looking, bu tby no means bad - 7/10
Function - Not much, nice stuff, but not much of it. Decent though - 7/10
Price - Free! Get it at the Adult Hub freebie store which Katie donated some toys to - 10/10

Get it at - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Adult%20Hub/128/306/30/?title=Adult%20Hub%20Freebies
Stop by RF in world at - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom

MD Head Harness

Mesmerize dungeon item today, and a nice one at that.

Quality

Its. a head harness. Nice tight straps wrapped around the head, one coming down from the top of your head to your nose, then splitting off to either side of your mouth. Just as it should be, it looks very nice. It has a lot of accesories for those that enjoy Ponyplay, with otions like blinkers, ears and hair (which makes a plume of hair come out of the top of the harness). It also has nose hooks, which I've never used, nor plan to, so no pics of those I'm afraid.

One of the nice little additions is that small round metal plate on the forehead. When locked, the person who lock you has their initials inscribed on it. It also allows for some pretty heavy colour customization, allowing you to recolour any of the harness sections seperatly, a total of ten differant areas, with ten colour options, with the exception of the hair, which has 56. I recoloured mine to red for the purposes of this blog, so people can see it more clearly than my usual black.



Function

The head harness carriespretty much the 3 primary types of restraint a head can have, Blindfold, earplugs and of course gag. As always, will start from the top left of the menu. We have mouselook, a self explaintory option. Accessories, which lets you add or remove the hair, ears, blinkers, nose hooks or the face strap.

Then theres Gag. It has quite a few built in. A bite mask, ball, bit, ring, spider, panel and pony ball (bit and ball combined). The bitemask and panel gags can be applied over any of the other gags without removing them, meaning you can have the ball stuffed in, then a tight panel pulled over it. WIth the bit/pony ball the ends of the rod do stick out of the sides, though I think that is intentional. You can also adjust how severely the person drools, from none at all, to heavy, which seems ot be an almost constant stream. You can also turn emotes off, though I highly suggest not doing this. Hard to have fun when you can't emote how you feel or react.

Next menu is blindfold. Simple apply/remove option. Those that want a faux option may wish to contact me as I have aquired a certain hud that stops the MD harness blinding you. Only should be used with owners consent of course.. Theres Ear muffs next, which apply two small muffs over your ears as you;d expect. You can block chat here, or chat and IM. I don't recomend the latter, but I suppose it is a required option for the market.

Next we have timelock, then a leash, and then the plugins menu. First is the Signature option. This is pretty much a titler and renamer. You can have it show above your head if you or your captor wish. It'll rename you when you are gagged, so you could be named say, Lisa, and have the gag come otu saying Carol. Renamers are fairlyc ommon, so not gonna go in depth yet, will save that for my plugins post later in the month. You can also change the colour of the titles text.

You have the owners option, The primary can access the harness at anytime, keys or not. Sec owners I believe may be able to do this as well. You then have picklock, which lets you or a friend with the picklock tool to try and break the locks open. Its a very easy albeit somewhat time consuming mini-game. Siz cylinders, each with a number from 1-6 chosen randomly. The number does not change when the cylinders fall or you try to turn it, so its simple trial and error.

Theres the colour menu in here, and the groupkey. The groupkey as far as I can tell lets you sync it with a specfic group. That group can then, if given a group key, access the harness at anytime via the key, which is best attached to the HUD. Allows for good group play in places such as prisons without having to have the key passed around all over the place.

Back in the main menu we have 3 more options. Unlock, Public (Expose. Turn on and you are locked out of the menus) and RLV. It has all the usual RLV options in a simple menu system, as well as a folders button that lets you into the captives RLV folders. Pretty handy.

MD in world - http://slurl.com/secondlife/MD/128/180/1506

Scores

Quality - I can't fault this much, it looks great. - 8/10
Function - Probably the best harness in SL as of this time - 10/10
Price - 650 linden.. Its reasonable I suppose - 7/10
Average - 8.5

KaS Ballet Boots

Time to move on from the RF gear for awhile and onto something else.

KaS Ballet Boots

Quality

These are the best ballet boots in SL to my mind, appearance wise. Not just because they look amazing, but because of just how heavily you can customize them. With the boots comes a hud. attach it with the boots on, and you get well.. Millions of options. Each part of the boot can be done seperatly (see pics, one has every section a differant colour), and the colour choice is huge as its doen via a palette.

The boots themselves look great regardless however, well detailed, with an in-built shinyness adjuster.

For those that want a quick and simpe colour change rather than the palette for fine tuning, there is a colour menu in the boots themselves that will chaneg the entire boot to one colour.

Function

Quite a lot in here, starting from the top left of the menu. There is a Game option, which requires you at attach the Balance game hud that comes with the boots. When turned on, it will occaionally cause a mini-game topop-up where you need to memorise an order and repeat it. I believe an owner can lock it on you and leave you with the game occasionally happening.

Second menu is Access. This lets the owners lock you out of certain menus. Owners comes after that, fairly obvious menu. Lock and timer come next, then chain. Under Chain you can find a walk AO, turn the chain on lightly or strict, as well a sdney flight. Chaining slows down walking speed to some extent, with strict causing you to go a ot slower and even hop a little.

Colour has allready been covered, and then there is size. Lot of resizing options in here, as well as a reset button to turn them all back to normal. Handy for precise fitting. Lastly there is the More menu. Under here you find a few handy things, such as a stand AO and an option to make the boots use corset compatible animations. You can also have the boot straps visible at all times. These are two thin little rings just above the ankle where the chain is attached to normally.

You can adjust the glow here, as well as turn Fullbright on and off. Lastly there is an update button and a help button.

KaS in world - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Osbourne%20Beach/136/220/23/?title=KaS

Scores

Quality - These are of the highest quality, hands down - 10/10
Function - An awful lot built in, the game is a great addition, includes an AO, easy adjustment via a menu and. I could go on - 9/10
Price - 395 linden. Very cheap in comparison to most - 10/10
Average - 9.75/10



On another note, the last few post have all looked a bit differant as I'm sorting out a specific style. I'll be going back and adjusting the previous reviews to match this setup soon.

RF Dual SJ (latex) and Secure Boots

Last of the RF week reviews. I still have a few RF pieces left, but will leave them for a later time and get back to doing other creators.


The Dual Straitjacket

Two versions of this you can get, the more traditional one that you'd not be surprised to see in an Asylum, and the latex one which I own.
 

This is an old item, and isn't quite as customizable as a lot of the more recent devices are. For one its only collour is black. It ha stwo differant designs, one with a breatcutout (which has a lot more strap son the back) and one without. Thanks to the great thing known as ADD that was added sometime ago, we can wear the no cutout one under the cutout one to get the straps without putting ourselves on display. Or you can just wear another black shirt underneath of course.

It has two binding poistions, Forward Strap and Reverse. Forward is the typical SJ pose, arms strappe dsnuggly inf ront of you, whiel reverse is of course them bound behind you.

It has 7 plugins, Leashing, Give Keys, Invisi-cage, the RLV menu (and the typical restrictions contained within) Mannequin, A rleay and Keep Away. For more detail on these plugins I may do an extra post sometime to cover them more thoroughly than I have done so far in the reviews,

Thats really all it carries now.

The Secure Boots

First things first, these are compaible with the RF secure cuffs, which I will review at a later date.

Theres a couple of things to note here. The boots also have a seperate set of thigh cuffs which come with them. These are for all intent and purposes exactly the same as the secure cuffs from the other set, and designed to work with them seamlessly.

The boots themselves look good with 4 differant looks. You cna have them in ankle boot or knee length, and change the boot design to stiletto or ballet. You can also hide the boot altogether, which leaves the cuffs on them showing btu otherwise as if you had no shoes on. They are pretty highly detailed, been nice and shiny and detailed lacing. Thanks to the handy alphas, we don;t need those horrible invisi-prims messing things up either.. If you have an alpha. Its been awhiel since I bought these, so not sure if Katie has included one in the box.

They carry a lot of colour options, allowing you to fine tune the boot to how you want it to look, at least to some extent.

It has 5 plugins. A leash (which also gives out a leash post and handle). It has teh sounds menu ounfd in her other restraints. It also has Aux bound. With this turned on, the Phantom Binder found with some RF products and at the RF sim can bind you, so be careful if you turn it on!

It has cycle bound and future lock. The latter does as expected and locks you at some point in time to be specified in the menu. Cycle bound is, for people like myself who get bored of a single pose for too long, brilliant. It does as the name suggests, and after a preset time, will change what pose you are bound in. And this thing has a LOT of poses.

Under the Restraints menu, there are 4 options. Hobble and Hobble2, Immobile and Repose. Repose I covered in a previous blog, it helps if you get animation glitches. The other 3 all have poistions within. It can bind you in a total of 24 differant poses. That alone makes it one of the BEST restraints in SL for those that like variation.

Otherwise it has the rest of the basic stuff. Expose, Timelock, etc.

Restrained Freedom im world - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom


Scores!

Straitjacket
Quality - I'd say it looks pretty good, if a little dated. Not amazing, not bad. - 7/10
Function - 2 poses, few plugins.. Nothing too special - 6/10
Price - 350 linden. Its a good restraint, and thats a fair asking price - 8/10
Average - 7/10

Boots
Quality - These look good, and are heavily customizable. Go well with a lot of outfits - 9/10
Function - Ton of poses, work in tandem with the cuff set, decent plugins.. I can;t fault them - 10/10
Price -  500 Linden. You get your moneys worth here. - 9/10
Average - 9.5/10

RF week - Straitjacket + Check out KaS for freebie dress

On a complete unrelated note - Check out KaS today for a free corset dress! In Mesh! Even Salid Sewell is jumping on the mesh bandwagon now.  -  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sandor/96/187/36

Katies most recent straitjacket today. Once again I may be little bit biased due to my love of these things.


First up well.. You can decide from the pics for yourself, but I love this thing. Its tight, its shiyn and if you look at the back, its very secure. Plenty of locking straps to drive even the best lockpicker crazy. For most people it requires an alpha, but Katie has included one in the box which auto-attaches if you strap the SJ on providing its in your RLV folders.

It carries 9 latex colours and an alternate texture called institute, which is the kind you'd expect to find in an asylum. Unless thay make the patients wear latex ones nowadays anyway.. Anyway. The straps carry both latex and leather looks, as does the trim. The metal carries the normal three colours.

Moving on, on the functionality side.. It carries a lot of plugins. 13 to be exact, including the expected leash and RLV menu. It does include full RLV folder access with an excellent menu system, as well as the typical RLV options and a relay. It also carries some sounds, the same ones I covered in an earlier review.

Its blockable of course, and carries some over settings. Expose is as always dangerous to use, theres Verbose, and it also carries with it some items it hands out to the captor under Settings > Get items. A left or right hand leash holder, a leash post and the help notecard.

It has a key system, and also allows for a Master Key and sec owners. The masterkey is somewhat like the RR realkey, although more secure. The key can also be rezzed next to you when you're helpless and anyoen who clicks it will be able to access your restraints via it. Nasty.

It has two positions, Strapped front and strapped back. Not much else you can do with a straitjacket that that. Lastly is carries a load of sub anims to allow you to pose just right for whatever it is you may be doing.

Scores!
 
Visit Katie in SL! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom


Quality - I'm biased, the SJ to me is one of the best restraints in existance, and Katies made a great looking one - 10/10
Function - Does what it needs to, has some nice extras - 8/10
Price - 500 Linden. Not high, not low. Fairly reasonable - 8/10
Average - 8.5

RF week - Double review - Security Jacket and Legbinder

Continuing with my reviews of Katies gear! Today its her security jacket and her legbinder.

Now I may be a little biased here, as my love of straitjackets is nearly unparreled.. But I really quite like how this one looks. The no arm design straitjacket is very poorly represented in SL, so that instantly scores this one some points. Its of course nice and shiny, as latex gear should be. The straps, jacket and laces can all be set to one of nine colours, while the metal has the usual RF three.

Another good thing, it combos nicely with the legbinder I will be reviewing below.

I will say against it, I have to use an alpha to stop my body clipping it. Maybe include one in future updates Katie? (If this has been done, ignore this line and I'll delete it later) 

Functionality.. Well it only has one pose built in, but once again, its an armless SJ, what other pose can you really fit in? I can't fault it for not having something it shouldn't really have anyway. It has various plugins, the usual RF ones, the ever present leash and of course an RLV menu with the usual options. It has an escape mini-game (The usual RF one, 3 options, put in the right combination to get out). It can be hidden via the unstrap command, and then of course shown via strap. It can of course be locked.

And.. Thats all for this one. Legbinder next

Theres quite a lot of variance in looks for this one. It has leather or latex textures for one, although when you fit the Binder option, there seems to be only one latex option. The rest cover leather. You can change the latex to some extent via the colours menu, but not much. The same goes for belts, one latex colour, rest leather.

On the above, if I have somehow missed the latex options, please let me know!

It carries the struggle mini-game, and some of the usual plugins, some differant ones. Theres a relay in it, as well as Ice Keys (temporary access) and of course the RLV menu. It doesn't have a leash, though I suppose it doesn't quite fit the restraint to have one. It can be unstrapped to hide it, and strapped back on to bind you back up. When unstrapped, you can turn the chaps on, showing off the binder without restraining you, more like a pair of very loose/bulky trousers. There is of course a timelock.

It has a built in sit AO, to allow you sit on objects without issue. There is also a Re -> option. In here it lets you relace the legbinder, which re-renders the laces on the back incase they aren't showing, and repose, which helps sort out sitting and any possible glithcing.

It has 6 poses. Standing, Hogtie, Kneeling, Lay Belly, Sitting and Lay back. There is also Dance, which makes you stop hopping around on the spot if standing, a fun little extra.

Thats them both done!

Visit Katie in SL! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom

Security Jacket
Quality - Pretty high, unique look in SL again. Could use an alpha in the box - 8/10
Function - It has what it needs, no more, no less.. -7/10
Price - 350 is a resonable asking price - 8/10
Average - 7.5

Legbinder
Quality - Will appeal more to leather users than latex, but its still good - 7/10
Function - Plenty to go around and keep you entertained - 8/10
Price - 625 linden.. Decent enough I suppose - 6/10
Average - 7

Double Review - RF Mask Gag and Chastity skirt

Continuing with the Restrained Freedom gear today, we have the mask gag and the chastity skirt!

Starting with the gag.

It looks great, quite a unique design for SL. Nice tight mask over your moth and nose, straps going around your head, with added blindfold and earmuffs optional. As expected of Katie, the textures are well done, and it comes with plenty of colour options. 9 for the latex,  3 for the metal. You can also have it add a funnel if you want..

On function, this has a fair bit stuffed into it. It has basic RLV options, such as restrict IM (Something that should never be done), shortening emotes, etc. The eyepad of course works as blindfold and the earmuffs can half or fully deafen the sub. It can be exposed, which takes away nearly all control from you if you get the gag put on while its turned on. When ungaged you can switch back quite easily. It also has a gag evasion system, and can alter your camera allowances, from mouselook up 25 meters if turned on.

Theres also the gagging type. There is human, the normal everyday gagging, but also Kitty and Puppy. Using these changes your name in chat to ^Kitty <name>^ or *Puppy <name>*. On the next menu we have some of the more basic options. A key menu (take/leave and give), timelock and the style menu. Its worth nothing that the gag has a timelock that can be put on for as long as a week, which personally would make me murder the gagger, but some like that length.

Theres then a mumbler, which adjust how badly garbled yoru speech is. Mumble, Garble, Incoherant and silence are there as expected (mumble been lightest, silent doing as name suggests). Then there is Pet and Thinking. Pet make syou come wiht nothing but Mmphs, while thinking. For me when testing this, I would get my message come up, and on the next line "Aria thinks ...". Also on this line is Lock, and channel which adjust which channel you are garbled on. The line below handles the blindfold (Faux, half and full) ,earmuffs (partial, full), and the gag/ungag option.

Thats it for the gag, onto the skirt!

It looks pretty good. The skirt is nice and latexy, while the belt itself has some fancy metalwork along the belt itself. It also comes with a pair of cuffs that lock your wrisst to the belt, a nice little addition. As far as I know, this was somewhat designed so that back when it was first made, you could wear a skirt and a belt. As this was before the add command came in, it was a great idea, as you had to wear one or the other, not both back then.

The skirt has 9 colour options, one of which is schoolgirl. I don't think I need to detail that. The belt cvan also eb adjusted with a ton of colours, to the poiint that there are 11 menus underr belt, each with several shades of a colour inside. My only complaint is that we can't recolour the metal rim via this menu, and have to do so via mod, if you know how to anyway.

It has all of katies usualy plugins, the mannequin mode, invisi-cage, etc. and the general RLV plugins (No TP, Inv, etc). There is of course a timelock as well.

There is the accesories menu as well. Under this you can cuff or uncuff the sub as well as use some of the more.. Interesting toys the belt has included. To be exact there is a vibe and anal plug, as well as a strapon for those that really fancy that. The longer the vibe is in, the more powerful it gets it seems. Nasty.

Visit Katie in SL! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom

Scores!

Gag
Quality - Very high, another unique look form Katie as well - 8/10
Function - This has a ton of stuff crammed in, I can;t fault it at all - 10/10
Price - 400 linden for an excellent gag - 9/10


Average -  9/10

Skirt
Quality - Its quite high, back when it was first made it would of been great, but its a little dated now - 7/10
Function - It does what a belt should do, with some extra stuff thrown in as Katie seems to always do - 8/10
Price - 400 linden, pretty sure thats cheaper than most belts in SL. - 8/10
Average - 7.5

RF corset

Felt it was time to do something a little differant tonight. Time for a corset!

So on looks.. Its very nice, as exoected of RF. The detail is very high, showing off teh stitching along the seams, the laces actually been tied, the straps at the front look great, and of coure its shiny.

I will say however, I had to heavily edit to fit my shape, and the inbuilt resizer rather made it too short or too wide for me. This isn;t that bad though, considering my shape seems to be a bit taller and more slender than a lot of gear is designed for. Thankfully its full mod and editting prims is easy enough. Katie mentions this in the products NC and on the sign you buy it form, so theres no excuse to go ranting at her for it, she did warn us.


On colours - First up choos eone of the sections (Metal, Strap, Corset or lacing) to get into the menu for that part. Metal has 3 colours, Bronze, silver and gold. The straps can be made either latex or leather, with 10 leather and 9 latex colours. The lacing has 9 colours and then theres the main corset.

It has all the options of the leather and latex ones, same as teh straps, then anothe rmenu marked as Others. In here are 9 other looks for it. Tie-Dyed, Steel, Wood, Floral, Argyle, Denim, Plaid, Lace and Brocade.

Now onto function. One major warning, do NOT remove yourself from owners unless you really want to be in bad situations. The NC warns of this as well.

The leveling is not unlike the KaS corset (to be covered later by me). You go to the highest level you can, and eventually it will open up a tighter option. However it has a few extras to make it more interesting.

The corset has a built in breath meter hidden away, and if you have the corset set higher than your comfort level, you may faint. When you faint, you lose some progress towards the next comfort level. On top of this, there is a machine included in the box. Sitting on this machine will tighten the corset by two levels instead of one, putting you past what the options allow. Doing this allows for faster training, but also makes you faint faster.

If you remove yourself from owner and teh corset gets locked well.. You're not in for a good time.Theres no way to loosen the corset if its locked and you are not set as an owner. This is epescially bad if you are on the machine setting, and have it tightened by two levels. I'm pretty sure you faint often enough that you can't level without loosening it.

There are a total of 6 levels, getting steadily tighter.

Unlike other RF items, these have no keys, just an owner system. The corset can be hidden, to allow for the sub to wander without her waist been crushed. As of this moment in time, I have yet to find an expose command, so its unlikely some random person can click it and force it on you. The boning can be removed or added. When removed, it can be a little.. Iffy with a lot of AOs, and when on, may make you sway from side to side rather like you're drunk. This is mentioned in the products NC, and has a recomended walk anim to use mentioned along side it.

Scores!

Quality - Very high. Can be a bit iffy with some shapes, but Katie does put a disclaimer in the NC and on the products sign. - 8/10
Funciton - Quite a lot. An expose command would be nice, but not necessary. - 8/10
Price - 500 linden. Like most of her items, this is reasonable - 8/10
average - 8/10

Updates!

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